Amaryllis's Quotes

#1. There are things we can do to give us a little more attention ... I've got to look more frantic.

George H. W. Bush

#2. I sat with it, the porn still going, the load of hate now trickling down the side of my hip and I wondered if there was a machine in existence that could possibly gauge how much I had regressed in the past five minutes.

Eric Monsky

#3. Don't allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#4. They were having sex on Gifford's desk, if you must know."
Lucas's eyes glinted. "His desk, huh?"
"Yes." Amaryllis raised her chin, the better to look down her nose at him. "I would have thought it would have been extremely uncomfo rtable, but they appeared to enjoy it.

Jayne Castle

#5. But I can't stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don't want me to be happy.

Caroline Kepnes

#6. Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

Bill Maher

#7. Be careful not to spend your life laboring in secondary causes.

Robert J. Matthews

#8. For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

Nikki Sixx

#9. With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.

Michelle Richmond

#10. I dont want the world to see me, becuase i dont think they would understand.

Kellin Quinn

#11. The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

Masha Tupitsyn

#12. Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."
--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

Tamara Valentine

#13. I have learned that bitterness, resentment and self-pity do nothing to lift the gloomy clouds of a spiritual February in my life. If anything, these sins only harden the soil of my heart, making it difficult for new growth to spring forth at God's appointed time.

Katherine J. Walden

#14. Disrespect cannot be commanded, it must be earned.

Matthew Taberner

#15. We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Arundhati Roy

#16. What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Oscar Wilde

#17. I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

Margaret Atwood